Comments about ‘3A high school football playoffs: Juan Diego dominates the Tigers, advance to Rice-Eccles’

@yankees27"It is laughable that the St. George area schools cry out
about this, when there are 5 schools to choose from down there." This
comment you finished with is exactly the problem with Utah and its policy on
athletics. Never a level playing field!

Yes, Hurricane was down on talent this year when compared
to last year's team. I understood that comment of yours. But I still
don't understand how Hurricane "overachieved" and "scored more
points to win" in 9 games this year and you still say they were outplayed in
those 9 games? I don't think I am the only one who would not understand
this strange concept you are trying to sell. Perhaps you are trying to say that
the teams that Hurricane won had more individual talent, but couldn't play
together as a team as well as Hurricane did? Perhaps in your opinion these
athletes individually outplayed individual athletes from HHS; such as P. Miller
from PV who had 300+ yards in the game against HHS but PV still lost. Or how
Blake Barney had a stellar game, as usual, against HHS but his Flyers still came
out on bottom. D-Hills and JD beat Hurricane with a total team performance.
Hurricane got their 9 wins with a total team performance. Like you said, they
"overachieved" and I can guarantee you, as a team they were not
outplayed in those 9 games. Your statement just doesn't make sense!

@MarkDI would like to know all the facilities that JD uses to take such a
big advantage in sports, and why don't they use it for all the other sports
that they haven't been as successful at over the years? Comparing them to
Bishop G is a huge statement. Have you ever even seen Juan Diego's
sportsfacilities? No offense to JD fans but their field looks awful. More black
than green. Had a chance to see their weight room and it was tiny compared to
other schools. I am not associated with JD.

Also. Juan Diego
Catholic has a great team this year. I think they are the clear favorites for
this years championship. But don't count Dixie out. QB Barney is great and
it should be fun to see him try and out play a stellar JD defense that could be
the best Defense Juan Diego has ever had. My pick is JD over Dixie 21-0.

Great season Hurricane Tigers. They played a tough game against JD but
show promise for years to come. Can't wait to see what they have in store
for us next year.

Both JD and Judge are under 800 students but that counts their Freshman class.
For classification purposes they only consider 10 thru 12, where both JD and
Judge are closer to the 500 student cutoff for 2A. I stand corrected that the
enrollment today at JD puts them in 3A but when the last realignment took place
JD was under the 500 student limit. Based on that they are playing up.

FBfan2- Yes, Wasatch is near the top of 3A enrollment and rumored to be 4A next
alignment. I'm guessing Wasatch, Uintah, Park City will be bumped up and
maybe the St.George schools? With the new 6 divisions in football, many will go
at least 4A anyway, but I think the first 3 I mentioned will move to 4A in all
sports. Uintah had always been the largest of 3A schools (until the recent
economic problems forced alot of moves) but were kept in 3A because the Utah
county schools cried about traveling out there to play. It will be interesting
to see where Wasatch would be put in a region, either with Utah county or Salt
lake area schools. I think JD will play 4A football, so we may remain in their
region for that, but not for other sports.

I believe the main reason you have 5A, 4A, etc. to equalize big schools with a
larger talent base playing like schools and smaller schools the same. Throw in
an "attractive" smaller school who can "open enroll" an entire
metro area, and that school has more resources to pick and choose a team from.
Big advantage to them over their smaller school counterparts.

Compare
to Skylines of old. Big schools with low attendance numbers that had the
ability to open enroll the entire school district and beyond. Their advantage
wasn't as great because they had to play at the big school level. But the
open enroll advantage proved to be very beneficial when 9th graders could be
identified from other school boundaries and enrolled in feeder junior highs.

In my opinion, Judge, struggles because they are the older school in
an older part of the valley and not the "new" vibrant private school.

I believe Juan Diego has good coaches, no question, but so do many other
school. The key is the ability to open enroll.